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Copilot Gets a Superbowl Ad and New Features 📺
Gemini Ultra is finally here
Gina Acosta
February 08, 2024
Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
In an unexpected move, Microsoft is highlighting its AI aspirations with a new Super Bowl commercial for Copilot. A notable shift from the company's usual practice of using these high-value ad slots to promote traditional products like Windows PCs and Xbox consoles.
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Copilot Gets a Superbowl Ad and New Features 📺
Source: Microsoft
Microsoft is making a bold move to highlight its AI efforts by airing a commercial for its new Copilot assistant during the Super Bowl on Sunday- signaling the company's heavy investment in AI technology.
Alongside the Super Bowl ad, Microsoft is rolling out new features for Copilot to enhance user experience and image creation capabilities. Users can now highlight objects in AI-generated photos, blur image backgrounds, or add effects like pixel art, all within the app. Plus, expect a sharper look and feel for the app overall.
Source: Microsoft
If you’re a Copilot Pro subscriber you will also be able to resize and regenerate images between square and landscape without leaving chat. Finally, the company announced a new Designer GPT within Copilot, which will offer immersive, dedicated canvas where you can visualize your ideas.
Google Rebrands Bard as Gemini and Launches Gemini Advanced
Google has made a major update to its AI chatbot offering, rebranding Bard as Gemini and introducing a paid subscription. This gives users premium access to Google's most sophisticated language model to date.
Details:
The new model will be available to those who have signed up for the Google One AI Premium Plan, priced at $19.99 per month. It includes two terabytes of cloud storage in Google Drive and other benefits from the Google One subscription.
Gemini Advance provides access to Gemini Ultra 1.0, Google's new top-performing language model, which outperforms GPT-4 in 30 out of 32 benchmarks, according to their reports.
Google has also redesigned the Gemini interface for improved user experience
It will finally be possible to test Google’s claims and see if Ultra is indeed “the most powerful and capable large language model (LLM) yet”.
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The Biden administration has named Elizabeth Kelly, a senior White House economic policy advisor, as the inaugural director of the AI Safety Institute established under an executive order last fall. Kelly will spearhead efforts to develop rigorous testing procedures for major AI developers by July 2024. The testing standards aim to validate the safety of AI systems for consumer and business applications.
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